Been playing some Skyrim, got Hearthfire, which is a really neat expansion, getting to build and customize your own house is great, you can also adopt kids if you're into that kinda thing. Make sure you have lots of Iron ingots though. At least 500.Also got 3 arcade games, Dust: An Elysian Tale, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Mark of the Ninja.I haven't played a ton of Dust yet, aside from what there was of the trial, it's pretty fun, pretty too look at and everything, kinda furry though, but Metroidvania games aren't out often enough sadly, and I need my fix. Counter-Strike Global Offensive is fun, if you've played CS before its not a whole lot different aside from some new guns, prettier graphics, and only 5 v 5, but it's still pretty darn fun.Mark of the Ninja is fantastic, it comes from the dudes who did Shank, the games stealth mechanics work excellently, the story is great, and the art style is really sweet, its a shame it hasn't gotten much attention. I picked it up, played a few levels and said "Okay, after this level I'm going to play something else", but found myself playing a few more, and a few more, until I was at that point where I was too tired to play the game decently.

Stock is where it's at, and I'm one of those jerks who turns items off. No need to give others an advantage to even the scales. I was a Melee guy back when I played it and usually went with Ness, Falcon and Zelda, and went with Marth instead of Roy.

Oh shit, someone who actually plays Ness as part of their roster? That takes 1337 skillz, yo. In melee I usually rock Link, Captain Falcon, Young Link, and Samus. In Brawl It's usually Captain Falcon, Toon Link (real Link got fucking nerfed, like all of the best characters), Ike, or Pit if I'm feeling cheap.

I mean, I'll grind you into the dirt with anyone you want me to beat you with, but those are my favorites.

The only characters I see as being truly OP are metaknight and pit, just because they have stunlocks that are really fucking easy to pull off (metaknight players just tap A to win). I used to love samus, but her smash in brawl is fucking garbage, just because she loses her suit and has to derp around as zero suit Samus. Her triple jump sucks (all edge grab triple jumps are fucking worthless and I will fight you of you disagree). She should have just been two seperate characters. Also, on a somewhat related note, subspace emissary is fucking garbage. Am I really the only person who notices that the controls for SSB are waaaay to floaty for platforming? They should've done a double dragon style beat 'em up.

The only characters I see as being truly OP are metaknight and pit, just because they have stunlocks that are really fucking easy to pull off (metaknight players just tap A to win). I used to love samus, but her smash in brawl is fucking garbage, just because she loses her suit and has to derp around as zero suit Samus. Her triple jump sucks (all edge grab triple jumps are fucking worthless and I will fight you of you disagree). She should have just been two seperate characters. Also, on a somewhat related note, subspace emissary is fucking garbage. Am I really the only person who notices that the controls for SSB are waaaay to floaty for platforming? They should've done a double dragon style beat 'em up.

I dunno ZSS samus can kick a fair bit of ass if you know how to use her, I have a friend I'd play online with who'd use her a lot, doing that button combo thing so you start off as her, and she kicked my ass on just about every ocassion.And yeah, Subspace Emissary sucked, I liked what they were going for, and enjoyed the CG cutscenes, but it'd work much better as a beat em up, like you said, and it just fucking dragged on, and then they pull that filler shit at the end where you have to re-beat every single boss and character in the game.

Went online with my PS3 yesterday for the first time in months to acitivate the Beta key for Dust I got and to download the new Skyrim DLC I've been hearing so much about.

After fruitlessly searching the PSN store for the DLC I googled it and found out that the Skyrim DLC is probably NEVER coming to the PS3. Then I rage quit and realized hours later (e.g. this morning on the drive to work) I never did activate that beta key. *facepalm*